The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
State Supt. Education South Carolina.

Tne applicant lot q ScnOlarSnlp must DC at
least II years Of age, present to the President
OF the College certificate of irreproachable
neral character, gtntlemanly or lady-like
habits, presumed good heath, declare his inten-
pledge TO remain at the College two years, II
the scholarship is continued so long, promise
to submit cheerfully toall its requirements in
study, discipline, etc, and to teach in the
public schools of his or her own State at least
two years. If there Is opportunity.
The applicant must obtain from the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction for his
State Il certificate that he has passed salts
factory examination before said Superintend-
ent, or other competent person duly author
iZed in the studies required for admission to
the second or "middle class at the College,
viz, in Spelling, READING, Penmanship, Gram
mar and lySiS, Rhetoric, Geography (civil
and physicaD, Arithmetic, Algebra, United
States History. No particular textbooks are
prescribed for this examination. The candi-
date should give evidence of such knowledge
of the above branches as would justify omit
ting their further study. Students VIII also
be examined at the College with reference to
their classification, etc.
Gentlemen or ladies thus admitted, who
complete the prescribed course of study and
training satisfactorily. graduate regularly,
and receive from the proper authorities Il di-
ploma, admitting them to the degree OF eli.
centiate Of Instruction. CL ~
The Peabody scholarship money will not be
paid until the student has been a member of
the College one month, at which time, and at
the close of each succeeding month, s25 will
be paid TO an amount not exceeding $500 for
the year; no payment will be made for the
fraction OF a month. 1t is expected that this
money will be appropriated by the student to
the payment OF board and other College eX-
penses first of all; and no certificate or diplo-
ma will be granted To any student known to
be in arrears in these respects.
These scholarships will in no case be cOntin-
ued to students whose rank or standing Is
low, whose general demeanor Is obJectiona.
BILE, who do not give promise Of usefulness as
teachers, or whose health or other circum-
stances prevent constant attendance on or
performance of College duties.
Students failing to complete their course of
study according to the conditions prescribed,
or to teach after graduating, are required TO
refund the amount Of money they have received
from the peabody Education Fund" to the
President OF the College.
EXPENSES.-Gcntlemen usually pay from
SIS to SIS month for board in approved
boarding houses or private families. Ladies
pay, in best private families, SIS to $50 n
month. S6 a year is paid tor the use Of such
books, etc, as arr furnished by the College
and for portion Of the incidental expenses.
The Annual Session opens on the first
Wednesday in October, and closes with tre
Annual Commencement on the last WedneS-
day in May. There is no vacation during the
session, except the Christmas holidays.
Scholarship students will not be received af-
ter the opening of the session, except in extra.
ordinary cases.